I am an interdisciplinary artist, curator and educator based in Chicago. The heart of my practice and the majority of work I make is made to be performed and shared with a live audience. These works are influenced by and borrow from contemporary performance art, experimental theatre, and social practices. Drawn to and inspired by the metaphysical and existential, my artistic work interrogates the big questions of human (co)existence through an examination of the very personal, nuanced, lives we live out and enact both alone and together.
Collaboration is vital to my practice and I often work with others to devise processes that are specifically tailored to each project and intentionally developed over varying lengths of time. My frequent collaborators include fellow performance artists and theatre-makers, but also musicians, composers, choreographers, dancers, visual artists, and writers as well as dear friends, my partner, and former students; occasionally my collaborators are people I am meeting for the very first time we begin our process, and sometimes my collaborators are my parents. Together, we build a creative process with love, trust, and play and through reciprocal exchanges and refinements.
My work has been performed and exhibited at The Arts & Design Incubator (Penn State), Bellmont Hall (UT Austin), The Copernicus Center (Chicago), Defibrillator Gallery (Chicago), The Haggerty Museum (Milwaukee), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Links Hall (Chicago), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Roman Susan Gallery (Chicago), and Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago). I hold a MFA in Studio Art Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.
Collaboration is vital to my practice and I often work with others to devise processes that are specifically tailored to each project and intentionally developed over varying lengths of time. My frequent collaborators include fellow performance artists and theatre-makers, but also musicians, composers, choreographers, dancers, visual artists, and writers as well as dear friends, my partner, and former students; occasionally my collaborators are people I am meeting for the very first time we begin our process, and sometimes my collaborators are my parents. Together, we build a creative process with love, trust, and play and through reciprocal exchanges and refinements.
My work has been performed and exhibited at The Arts & Design Incubator (Penn State), Bellmont Hall (UT Austin), The Copernicus Center (Chicago), Defibrillator Gallery (Chicago), The Haggerty Museum (Milwaukee), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Links Hall (Chicago), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Roman Susan Gallery (Chicago), and Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago). I hold a MFA in Studio Art Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.
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